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The disease imposes substantial costs on individuals, families, and governments.
By contrast, when the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund lends cheap money to developing countries, it imposes conditions on what they can do with it.
For example, by refusing to sign the fiscal compact, which imposes stricter controls on national spending in the eurozone, the UK has forced the arrangement to operate outside EU mechanisms.
The Stability Pact already imposes limits on each member’s fiscal policy discretion.
The solution is either a broad and deep debt restructuring that imposes losses on the private sector, or an ever more expensive bailout by taxpayers.
To be sure, the US military presence still imposes a certain order with which most parties can live; but it risks dragging the world’s largest military power into petty regional conflicts, a prospect that should alarm us one century after 1914.
Second, some employers are being incented to reduce the number of working hours for individual employees, because, above a specified number, Obamacare imposes a larger burden on them.
A reform offering a “tenure track” imposes no burden on public finances, and could avoid further distortions and highly costly measures later on.
If the German Constitutional Court imposes limits on the OMT program, the consequences would be dire, for it would render the ECB’s guarantee to do “whatever it takes” ineffective.
America’s system of government imposes particularly strict constraints on officials’ actions, reflecting a deep-rooted skepticism of philosopher-kings.
Despite the ambiguity about NATO membership that registered in opinion polls in my country, the citizens of the Czech Republic are fully aware of these threats and the obligations that NATO membership imposes as to their part in the joint responsibility for preventing or combating them.
It is thus not surprising that Europe could enact a cap-and-trade system that imposes a carbon price on a large part of its industry.
If each nuclear-power plant was obliged to insure against the risk that it imposes on society (within and outside the country of its location), it would face the true economic cost of its activities.
This land imposes no narrow conformity on its citizens.
But that is not likely to help growth, and it imposes the burden on the workforce and the young who are trying to enter it, a valuable subset of whom are mobile and could simply leave.
Maybe, then, the ultimate lesson of the Powell-Trump comparison is that a presidential system of government, like that in the US, is not superior in terms of the checks it imposes on political extremists.
Prolonged slump imposes not only mass unemployment, but stagnant wages, increased poverty, and rising inequality.
To lower public expenditure without exacerbating the inequalities which slow growth imposes on society, public sector structural reforms are demanded.
Traffic congestion, in particular, is not only environmentally detrimental; it also imposes substantial time and resource costs on drivers.
The problem with such intrusive oversight is that political issues that incite the strongest passions -- such as determining electoral lists -- are suppressed when an international body offers and imposes its own solutions.
The argument for a pause is that the central bank may want to wait and see how much damage, if any, the VAT hike imposes on the German economy before continuing on with the process of rate hikes.
The strain of trying to meet this impossible standard of cool curiosity about one’s own fate imposes an unbearable distance between the scientist of the body and mind, and the body and mind of the scientist.
But the much-needed structural reforms to limit leverage and contain the risks that the financial system periodically imposes on the real economy – and the public purse – have only belatedly gotten off the to-do list, and the prospects of enacting them are difficult to estimate.
Each country’s austerity imposes external costs by reducing demand for other countries’ products.
One reason for this is that, to adjust for the higher social charges which Canada imposes on its goods, the Canadian dollar fell relative to the U.S. dollar over the course of these years.
In West Africa, a simple money transfer operator now handles 70% of official payments and also imposes exclusivity on banks.
If China imposes a carbon price for its energy-intensive manufacturing industries, the US won’t need to do so at its border, lowering risks to the international trading system on which both countries rely.
But, if you apply it to Italy, I mean, there are more and more critics of Europe because of its top-down approach, whereby the EU imposes regulations and rules on member countries – and especially on SMEs.
Thousands of Germans appealed to the Constitutional Court against the OMT program, arguing that it violates Article 123 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which bars monetary financing of eurozone governments, and that it imposes substantial risks on German citizens as taxpayers.
I believe that restricting the use of government funds for the creation of stem cells, although politically prudent, imposes substantial scientific handicaps.
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